When we look deeply into ourselves, we see both flowers and garbage. Each of us has anger, hatred, depression, racial discrimination, and many other kinds of garbage in us, but there is no need for us to be afraid. In the way that a gardener knows how to transform compost into flowers, we can learn the art of transforming anger, depression, and racial discrimination into love and understanding. This is the work of meditation.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh from Touching Peace
Monday, January 28, 2008
Transformation
Fr. Clyde Glandon sent me the following:
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